Episode 29: Wizard Wagon
From Swords Against Madness by Brian C. Rideout
December 20, 2025 · 33 min · Season 1 · Episode 29
About this episode
Miria, Edryk, and Kale discover a strange object that allows for travel to the planes.
Miria, Edryk, and Kale finally reach the place where the All-Knowing believes there is a means to travel to the planes. The object they discover is far stranger than anything they could have imagined. In this session I reference the amazing role-playing game Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG from Goodman Games . DCC catches the strange psychedelic vibe of the books that inspired D&D – and Swords Against Madness – better than any other game on the market. It also borrows some rules for planar travel and plane shifting from Advanced Dungeons & Dragons and Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition to fill in the gaps in the Swords & Wizardry rule-set. Magic Item: The Wizard Van The Wizard Van is an enchanted 1974 Ford Econoline with air-brushed fantasy art on the sides and comfortable couches in the back. It is fuelled by magic-user spells. Each level of spell cast into its Flux Capacitor provides two hours of fuel. The van can shift to the Astral Plane by using 2 hours of fuel. It can also fly at 55 miles per hour, but has a ceiling of 50ft. and consumes twice as much fuel. Some Inspiration I mentioned the song Wizard Wagon by Glitter Wizard ; if you want to check out…
People in this episode
Guests: Jon Cohen, Owen Rideout
Topics covered
- fantasy
- role-playing games
- planar travel
- magic items
- storytelling
Keywords
- Wizard Van
- Dungeon Crawl Classics
- planar travel
- D&D
- fantasy art
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Free Music Alliance, Free Music Archive
Products: The Wizard Van
Books & works: Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG, Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition, Wizard Wagon, King Edward
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